Among Native Americans, a phratry is often identified by a nature sign.

You people call yourselves a 'family' but the grouping is a phratry."

In particular were those of the psychologic phratry involved in this.

Overlaying these relationships was a phratry system, a division into clans.

"It was the ancient warning cry of my phratry," Drraagh explained.

Each phratry is further sub-divided into a number of exogamous surnames.

A related dialectal word in Khanty denotes a specific phratry.

Four main Tsimshian clans form the basic phratry.

Endogamy at community level and exogamy at phratry and surnameslevel are observed.

Succession was matrilineal, and one's place in society was determined by one's clan or phratry (defined as four equal parts).

The Masula phratry of these people cultivate bees on the mountain, and as bee-keepers claim exclusive rights to the land and water.

Kashmiri Hindu and Muslim phratry are a descent group containing at least two clans which have a supposed common ancestor.

A phratry is a descent group composed of two or more clans each of whose apical ancestors are descended from a further common ancestor.

Those phratries didn't last long, because each leader of a phara desired to be the leader of the phratry and would not be led by another.

It is indeed just possible that the term may originally have signified true member of a clan, since membership of a phratry was a characteristic of each clan.

An Athenian belonged not only to a phyle or tribe and one of its subdivisions, the phratry or brotherhood, but also to an extended family, clan or genos.

In Athens, enrollment in a phratry seems to have been the basic requirement for citizenship in the state before the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC.

It was a seasonal campsite in the territory of the Hackensack, a phratry of the Lenni Lenape, who used the serpentine rock found there to carve pipes.

Lenape Minsis, phratry of the Lenape - also been referred to as Munsi, Munsee, Monsi, and Muncey.

"The phratry exogamy is more strictly observed by the Ao Nagas; their Kinship system is very intricate, as instead of two, they have three marriage classes." "

Within the Delaware hierarchy, Bemino's phratry (clan) is unclear, but he was a member of either the Turtle or the Turkey phratry.

The Paulins Kill was originally known as the Tockhockonetcong by the local Native Americans, who were likely Munsee, a tribe or phratry of the Lenni Lenape.

The Laxgibuu (variously spelled) is the name for the Wolf "clan" (phratry) in the language of the Tsimshian nation of British Columbia, Canada, and southeast Alaska.

In those reforms, enrollment in the citizen-lists of a deme became the requirement for citizenship; prior to that time, citizenship had been based on membership in a phratry, or family group.

In the matrilineal system of the Tsimshian, Alexcee followed his mother as a Giluts'aaw and as a member of the Gispwudwada (Killerwhale clan or phratry).